Regina Frank, The Artist is Present
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Berlin, January 24, 1996

Yesterday I had my first Hebrew lesson. This language is strange but it is going to very nice, just the right form of sports for my brain that I need. I can't talk about it now but I am deeply impressed, just from this first hour. I fear already that I won't be able to speak it but it will be like studying Sanskrit and Chinese for me, inspiring and give me a little bit an idea of how the people are thinking in this different language. I am really more interested in the system of a language. Languages are such fascinating systems of thinking. Sometimes I think it was a waist of time to study art, during that time I could have learned at least 3 languages...maybe not I can't even speak German and English properly, and studying art was also like learning a language.

continued from yesterday

With the following text I would like to introduce you to a thought-pattern, to a patchwork of ideas that I've collected and sewn together with the intangible threads of my mind. You'll find ideas about clothing as empty vessels for inner developments, as carriers of energy or thoughts or data, clothing as time documents or as homes, ideas about the dress as an ad-dress, as a container for information or shelter to protect from information. Often the ends of those thought-threads that I am weaving my patterns with, might get lost as they are woven into the fabric of my life and these layers are all connected, some of them can't be taken apart anymore and should not be distorted for better clarity. You'll find ideas about beads and pearls as carriers of information, thoughts about text and electronic data, reflections about computer networks and spider webs. It might best be seen as a meditation about the two poles, that we create the tension to live in between, poles like high-tech and low-tech, history and future, past and present, roots and homelessness, fashion and art and in some ways we put bridges and knots in between.

Fortsetzung folgt...to be continued tomorrow